Today would normally be my interval session but as I am still on my holidays and wanted a more enjoyable run rather than the pain of 5 sets of 4:10min/kms, I decided to try and beat my previous 10km PB. Bearing in mind that I hadn't tried a fast 10km since the end of April (done in 49:55) I knew that a fast 10km would become a PB, it was just a matter of how much by.

I was icy here in London so I waited until midday until I went out. I ran my Parkrun course and ran the first 5km in reverse and when I got to the starting line I turned around and ran the normal course. The first 5km took me 23:45 and the second 5km took me 23:59. It was difficult to run through the pain in the last 5km as there was no one to push me on and I think if I run a 10km race with other people and a bit of specific training I should be able to knock about 90 seconds off the time.

So a good run to end the year. I'll blog tomorrow about how I have found my first full year of running.

My Thursday runs are normally my slow long runs. So I'm trying to stick to that and do the Parkrun. My last long run was 14km which was 2 weeks ago and I want to run a bit more than that. Also I think the 9km before the Parkrun is the best idea because I'd be too tempted to run the Parkrun fast and then be too tired to keep going on afterwards :-). This way I'll already be tired and near the end of my run so it doesn't matter how fast I go!

I think Parkrun on New Years Day will be fab and I bet there will be a good turn out. I don't think I'm running ours if this ice and snow persists as it was like a skating rink when I did the last one! Folks were slipping and sliding right, left and centre which put me off